St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-16

very elegant in dining rooms, ana are
sometimes put on the table and pyra-
md> OF flowers heaped about the base.
Some comes as high as $50 and0SlOO. but
they are all prices. Fine china and
porcelain globes are in great demand
This season, and some of them come as
high Us so or SD.
y popular but silly fashion is to stick
4 lot of imitation bugs and spiders on
the large silk umbrella shades for high
standing lamps. which are now so eN-
tcmSively used in drawing rooms and
libraries. and which make euchre par
lies 50 picturesque.
Canary yellow. in all the variations of
the plumage of the bird. is one of the
most popular and fashionable shades
for curtains.
Mrs. Gallup. paughter of the late
Coffin COlket, is having a bed room
decorated and upholstered i'll ciel blue,
with lovely Japanese hangings en-
hroidercd by hand showing birds and
1iuAerS in gorgeous profusion.
Old rose velvet bordered with steel is
an elegant combination i'll expensive
table covers.
The craze for white and gilt furniture
has assumed gigantic proportions.
There is ROW hardly d Well-to-dO house
hold where white and gilt effects have
not been introduced. The danger is
that it may be Overdone.
Indian chairs are novelty. They
are Of bamboo. draped with rough fab
rics in very bright colors.
In the old classic forms now being re-
ViVcd in furniture and decoration there
is great deal of scroll work with
graceful and flowing lines and the
acanthus figures prominently.
Small figures have taken the place of
large ones in the finest carpets, and
carpets showing a solid ground work
are in considerable demand.
y novel idea introduced by some fash
lDmable ladies in Philadelphia is that of
having the backs and seats of easy bel
room chairs upholstered with silk and
filled with broken balSam bOughS. which
emil Il delicious fragrance for an entire
season.
Four-post bedsteads of the Gothic and
Renaissance periods are i'll high style,
and if real tapestry hangings can be
afforded they are just the thing.
Neat bookcases made of cherry. with
marble shelves can be bought as low as
81 and s.. Furniture was never so
cheap.
Young Tyson never tastes so we'll as
out of a fine old blue china tea cup, and
sets of old blue are in as great demand
aS III the days OF our grandmOtherS.
The Misses DreXel have introduced
novel idea in furnishing into their house
at rorreSdale. 1t consists of a series of
carved oak cases OF cabinets set be-
tween pillars and slightly projecting
from the wall. Above are little recep-
tacles with doors to hold books and
other odd articles. while vases and other
ornaments may be placed above. The
design is strictly RomaneSque.
An idea which Mrs. Samuel w. Gross
was one of the first to introduce in
Philadelphia has become very popular.
II is to have foliage plants in Orna-
mental pots and big vases set about in
parlorS. library and other rooms on
tables. without regard to what else the
tables hold and is most effective and
beautiful. In fact such foliage effects
look we'll on any high piece of furniture
but should not be too high.
One of the very latest and rarest
things i'll hangings are of Hungarian
embroidery III prismatic effects, show
ing nearly all the colOrS of the rainbow
There is a fancy for collecting small
china figures of animals and using them
in groups on small tables or in cabinets
aS bric-a-brac.
Plaques are no longer much in de-
mand. and are dead stock on the hands
of the dealers in elegant household
fixtures. Oak is the very latest rage.
Desks, chairs. brackets, bedSteadS, al
most everything. in fact, are made of it.
and it is now the most fashionable of all
the woods